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Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia Poullain
Cecilia Poullain
101 episodes
8 months ago
Charlotte Oloya, Country Director at School for Life Foundation in Uganda, discusses her role and the organization's mission to provide quality education to children. She talks about how she discovered her passion for education after working in a temporary program management role for 7 years, and later joined School for Life as the Country Director. Charlotte expresses optimism about Africa's future despite challenges, citing education and campaigning across the continent. School for Life has...
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Charlotte Oloya, Country Director at School for Life Foundation in Uganda, discusses her role and the organization's mission to provide quality education to children. She talks about how she discovered her passion for education after working in a temporary program management role for 7 years, and later joined School for Life as the Country Director. Charlotte expresses optimism about Africa's future despite challenges, citing education and campaigning across the continent. School for Life has...
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Personal Journals
Education,
Business,
Society & Culture,
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Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia Poullain
Transforming Futures: Charlotte Oloya's Journey with School for Life in Uganda
Charlotte Oloya, Country Director at School for Life Foundation in Uganda, discusses her role and the organization's mission to provide quality education to children. She talks about how she discovered her passion for education after working in a temporary program management role for 7 years, and later joined School for Life as the Country Director. Charlotte expresses optimism about Africa's future despite challenges, citing education and campaigning across the continent. School for Life has...
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1 year ago
49 minutes

Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia Poullain
"No Ordinary Assignment": Jane Ferguson's Extraordinary Journey as a War Correspondent
Jane Ferguson worked as a war correspondent for PBS NewsHour and The New York Times. In this episode, Jane shares her unique experiences as a journalist, including being the only foreign journalist in Yemen and catching the last plane out of Kabul after the Taliban took power. She talks about the excitement of being on the front lines, where history was being made and about the ethical dilemmas of her profession. She discusses her ability to confront fear and the importance of proving o...
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2 years ago
1 hour 16 minutes

Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia Poullain
Connect great people to do great things with Sherry Shannon-Vanstone
Sherry Shannon-Vanstone is a mathematician, cryptographer, entrepreneur and philanthropist. She founded Profound Impact in 2018? Profound Impact's mission is ‘to connect great people to do great things’. She had an early interest in mathematics and learned along her dad who’s was studying to be an electrical engineer. By the time she was in 5th grade, she tested her aptitudes and she scored 10th grade. Sherry started her career working as a cryptographer for the US government be...
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2 years ago
1 hour 4 minutes

Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia Poullain
Public speaking with ease for introverted women with Julia Kraft
Julia is an ‘expression mentor’. She specialises in working with introverted and anxiety-prone women who have a history of public speaking fear or performance anxiety and it's holding them back in their careers or from growing their business. Julia initially trained as an actress and then became a yoga teacher. Eventually she wanted more and she started teaching yoga teachers about their voice and about how to be confident in the spotlight before she transitioned to working with professionals...
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2 years ago
36 minutes

Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia Poullain
Pushing against cultural traditions with Lilian Sue
Lilian Sue is a PR coach and publicist. She helps creative entrepreneurs to build healthy PR mindsets and a successful PR strategy. Lilian grew up in a very traditional Chinese Canadian family. She explains the difficulties that she's had in pushing against the cultural traditions and the strict family roles, and what it's meant to her to live the life that she wanted. She learnt very early on to put boundaries in place and have ‘No Go Zones’ in order to maintain somewhat of a positive relati...
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2 years ago
51 minutes

Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia Poullain
Why women sabotage other women with Jennifer Hicks
Jennifer Hicks is the Director of Client & Business Development at Capital Fund Law Group. She speaks about transitioning from her role as a police officer to working in corporate. She is also a strong champion of women and specifically addresses why women sabotaging other women. When she first started her career as a police officer, she was treated with a lot of respect. But when she moved into another department, she experienced harassment and discrimination. She finally spoke out, fil...
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3 years ago
50 minutes

Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia Poullain
Indian railways with Sheena Simpson
Sheena Simpson completed a Master's degree in Asian History at the University of Sydney and specialized in the development of the Indian railways. She traveled to India on five separate occasions from 1989 to 2005 where she experienced first hand what it was like to travel on the railways. In her thesis, she studied the economic and social impact of railways on the Indian population, but also the harsh working conditions. The British had started to build railways in India because of the flour...
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3 years ago
30 minutes

Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia Poullain
Growing up in postwar Central London with author J M Philips
Jill Philips is the author of "Lamlash Street, a portrait of 1960s, postwar London through one family's story". In this episode, Jill talks about why it was so important for her to write a book about growing up in Cockney London after the war. From food rationing to swimming lessons, Jill gives us an insight into the reality of life in the heart of Cockney London only a few short decades ago. She talks about her relationship with her mother and how unusual it was for her mother to have insist...
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3 years ago
34 minutes

Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia Poullain
Reducing orphaned wells methane emissions with Staci Taruscio and Brooke Swain
Staci and Brooke work together at rebellion energy in Oklahoma. Staci is the president and CEO and Brooke is the senior engineering and geological technician. They are also the co-founders of Fellow Environmental Partners, a non-profit focussed on plugging orphaned oil and gas wells in an effort to reduce methane emissions. Staci and Brooke wanted to do something different for their next project. They were throwing around ideas and started to think about abandoned wells. The more they learnt ...
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3 years ago
53 minutes

Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia Poullain
La rage de réussir avec Paoline Ekambi
Paoline Ekambi est la présidente et fondatrice de Sportail Community, une entreprise de l'économie sociale et solidaire. Elle a été joueuse de basket professionnelle pendant 18 ans, dont 13 ans dans l’équipe française. Pour Paoline, le sport est avant tout une passion qui lui a offert une ouverture sur le monde, une connaissance d’elle-même, des valeurs, des voyages et des amitiés, comme elle le raconte dans cette interview. A 14 ans, elle intègre un parcours scolaire qui lui permet de mener ...
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3 years ago
30 minutes

Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia Poullain
De la psychologie à directrice de laboratoire au CNRS avec Claudine Herzlich
Claudine Herzlich était directrice de laboratoire au CNRS et a été la premiere femme a créer un laboratoire qui appartenait a la fois au CNRS, a l’INSERM et a l’EHESS. Elle est aujourd’hui retraitée et partage son incroyable parcours. Claudine a étudié la psychologie dans les années 1950 et nous raconte l’ambiance de l’époque à La Sorbonne, où la psychologie était une nouvelle discipline. Durant un séminaire avec Claude Lévi-Strauss, elle décide de son sujet de thèse et se focalise sur la san...
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3 years ago
1 hour 11 minutes

Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia Poullain
Protecting marine megafauna in Bangladesh with Elisabeth Fahrni Mansur
Elisabeth is the Senior Manager of the Marine Conservation Program of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) in Bangladesh. Her main focus is on protecting threatened marine megafauna. Elisabeth grew up in Switzerland and started her career as a teacher. In 2002, she moved to Bangladesh, married a Bangladeshi and ‘fell into’ conservation work. When she was working as a tour guide in the Sundarban forest, she and her husband became aware of the lack of protection of aquatic ecosystems in Bang...
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3 years ago
28 minutes

Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia Poullain
Being a doctor and a performer with Cindy Pan
Cindy Pan is a general practitioner, dancer and writer who has had a career on television and has written many magazine and newspaper columns as well as books. Most of all, she has always loved dance and she is dancing more today than she ever did! Cindy’s interview is about following your passions and interests and not letting anything stop you. Cindy studied medicine but she never let a chance to perform slip past her: if something came up and she thought that it might be a good idea, she j...
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3 years ago
1 hour 7 minutes

Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia Poullain
Become a speaker with Getrude Matshe
Getrude Matshe was born in Zimbabwe and grew up in London and New Zealand. Her main activity is her company ‘Her Story Circle’ and she is also a writer, a coach and a textile artist. Getrude is a life force. She is aligned with her gifts and follows her intuition - she has had an incredible life! She was not afraid to quit a job with no Plan B and 3 children to feed and she is always coming up with new business ideas! After a period of depression and a strange accident, Getrude set up Women C...
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3 years ago
43 minutes

Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia Poullain
Podcasting original plays with Diane Quinn
Diane Quinn is the co-founder and artistic director of ‘Unseen Theatre’, an audio podcast showcasing original plays featuring female protagonists. She is also a professional dancer, singer, actor, choreographer, director, company manager and playwright. Diane trained in ballet as a child and then went into musical theatre, regional and national theatre and film and television. Eventually, through dancing and singing and focusing on the musical aspect of her career, she transitioned into becom...
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3 years ago
46 minutes

Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia Poullain
'Arracher sa place' avec la rappeuse tunisienne Medusa Tn
Medusa Tn est une rappeuse tunisienne qui s’est faite connaître pendant le printemps arabe avec son titre ‘Tounsiya Fière De L'être’. Aujourd'hui elle habite en Île-de-France où elle poursuit ses études d'ingénieur. Initialement elle a voulu rapper pour donner le point de vue d’une femme tunisienne dans un contexte où il n’y avait que des rappeurs hommes. Elle aborde des sujets politiques et sociaux mais toujours d’un point de vue féministe. Son message et ses chansons sont devenus un porte v...
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3 years ago
39 minutes

Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia Poullain
Mentoring and finding your joy with Pamela Johnson
Pamela was the director of learning and development at Freddie Mac and a mentor for many. She is now an instructional designer and continues to act as a mentor. Helping and advising people brings a lot of joy to Pamela, so it’s no surprise that she found herself mentoring people quite organically. In the corporate world, people tend to use mentoring as a tool to jump to the next level. For Pamela, advancement comes naturally when you find your joy and your niche at work. As she puts it: ‘It w...
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3 years ago
32 minutes

Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia Poullain
Working with crocodiles in Cuba with Natalia Rossi
Natalia is the country director at the Wildlife Conservation Society in Cuba. She is a herpetologist, has a PhD from Columbia University and is a specialist in the American crocodile. From Columbia University in New York to working with crocodiles in the mangroves of Cuba, Natalia tells us about her work as a woman in conservation and particularly with crocodiles. From surveying nesting sites to jumping out of boats to capture crocodiles in nets at night, her job is definitely not for the fai...
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3 years ago
47 minutes

Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia Poullain
‘There is always a way’ with Hanan Nayel
Hanan recently retired from her position as General Secretary for Northeast Africa for Danone. She was born in Egypt but has lived in many countries and her career has been far from to linear. Hanan chose to stay at home when she had her two children and was terrified when she returned to work. She felt as many women do - that the world had changed. However, Hanan persisted and, when she moved from Amsterdam to Saudi Arabia, had the courage to pitch a programme proposals directly to the head ...
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3 years ago
47 minutes

Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia Poullain
Offering free education in Tanzania with Gemma Sisia
Gemma Sisia grew up in Australia and has been living in Tanzania for the past 20 years. In 2002, she founded the School of St. Jude, a charity school in the Arusha Region of Tanzania. Today the school has more than 1800 students. Gemma saw for herself how her parents always made school fees the priority, even when times were tough. When she graduated as a maths and science teacher and had the opportunity to teach in Tanzania, she did. But in the mid- 90’s, many of the students she was teachin...
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3 years ago
1 hour 12 minutes

Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia Poullain
Charlotte Oloya, Country Director at School for Life Foundation in Uganda, discusses her role and the organization's mission to provide quality education to children. She talks about how she discovered her passion for education after working in a temporary program management role for 7 years, and later joined School for Life as the Country Director. Charlotte expresses optimism about Africa's future despite challenges, citing education and campaigning across the continent. School for Life has...